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Defining rationalists as LW users, I think more came from these...
...than from just happening upon the site. I think people are more drawn in by an ongoing serial than an archive of pre-existing material.
It's easy to get someone to follow a cool blog or fanfic. It's hard to get someone to "read the sequences".
Maybe Eliezer should repost his sequences over the next few years, in a foreign part of the blogosphere, under a pen-name? :)
When I first found OB, Eliezer was just finishing the sequences and transitioning to LW. I would start reading an article, and follow all the links back to articles I hadn't read yet. I was happy to spend days reading a later article with lots of prereqs. For me, have a depth of existing material that has been built on is a feature.
Yep, just like TV Tropes or Wikipedia; all it takes is an interesting initial hook, and then the tab-queueing begins.